Did anyone see Derren Brown last night on The Music channel on freeview (not sure why he is on that channel, but he is). Fantastic stuff as always.

He played a simul against 9 masters. He won 4, lost 3, and drew 2. So he won with a 5½ - 4 score. Two of his wins were against GM's. He used a really complicated system to partly achieve this. He was dividing the boards into pairs, and using his opponents moves on one board, to mirror the moves on another board, so his opponents were sort of playing themselves. And he just played his own chess on the odd board left where he beat a FM. He must know his Chess?

I am still confused as to how he won the games with the system he deployed and explained afterwards. How was he able to mirror the moves with such confidence that the same patterns of exact play would occur to a far enough point in the games?

What is so significant about it being 9 minutes past 8 and 10 seconds today??

Answers on a post card...

From todays Daily Telegraph

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"There really is no downside to coming to this school. We have after school clubs like the mechanics club, chess club and PPL, which is Private Pilot's Licence."

Results of NEJCA Albyn events Sunday December 8th 2013 at Albyn School, Aberdeen
JUNIOR
Girls
1st Fadia Bedawi (Albyn) 5/6
2nd Holy Greig (Albyn) 4/6
3rd Kelly Campbell (Albyn) 3/6
Medal Kirsty Cooper (Albyn) 3/6
Boys
1st Alan Fleming (Albyn) 6/6
2nd Collin Casmpbell (Albyn) 5/6
3rd Sam Booth (Kemnay) 3.5/6
Medals
P3 Jalal Bayramov (Ashley Road) 3.5/6
P4 Peter Rees (Kemnay) 3.5/6
P5 John Rees (Kemnay) 3.5/6
P6 Lewis Elrick (Kemnay) 2.5/6
P7 Enli Soh (Albyn) 3.5/6

INTERMEDIATE
Girls
1st Oishani Dutta (Broomhill) 3/6
2nd Nandini Dutta (Broomhill) 1.5/6
Boys
1st Matthew Nelson (Laurencekirk) 5.5/6
2nd Fraser Nelson (Laurencekirk) 4.5/6
3rd Rafal Wilowski (Banchory) 4/6
Medals Ross Greig (Albyn) & Nathan Roulson (Albyn) both 4/6

CHAMPIONSHIP
1st Tariq Pasha (Albyn) 5/6
2nd Dylan Bodrell (Harlaw Academy) 4/6
3rd Nicholas Winter (Lathallan) 2/6

As usual, full results and photos at http://www.nejca.co.uk
Once again thanks to all sponsors, helpers, parent/guardians and children
Gerald Lobley

I ask this question again.
What progress has been made in regards to the formation of a working party to reform the constitution?
Who is going to sit on this committee?

If people have been appointed then why is there no news of any appointments

Here are the results for the Liverpool Quadrangular

North Scotland

Under 16
1 Andrew Horton ½ v ½ Murad Abdulla
2 Jake Manton 1 v 0 Lennart Koehn
3 Jason Lau 1 v 0 Leo Sani
4 Jordan Lewis ½ v ½ Jamie Underwood
5 James Walsh 1 v 0 Alexander Bold
6 Matthew Walsh 1 v 0 Caitlin Reid
5 1
Under 14
1 Daniel Abbas 1 v 0 Declan Shafi
2 James Moreby 0 v 1 Euan Gray
3 Josh Fernandes 1 v 0 Jack Stewart
4 Nugith Jayawarna ½ v ½ Leston D'Costa
5 Rohan Yesudian 1 v 0 Colin Howie
6 Riyaan Yesudian 1 v 0 Craig Gillies
7 Sam Hayman ½ v ½ Euan Dawson
8 Robert McLean 1 v 0 Michael Doyle
9 Sam Brennan 1 v 0 Callum Smith
10 Carmel Barwick 0 v 1 Stuthi Hegde
7 3
Under 12
1 Kevin Ye 0 v 1 Vagif Ramazanov
2 Mahima
Raghavendra 1 v 0 Ben Volland
3 Jack Nolan ½ v ½ Tom Constance
4 Adhitya Krishna 1 v 0 Rachel Smith
5 Dylan Kamath 0 v 1 Sam Harper
6 Anisha Kamath 0 v 1 Robert Pirrie
7 Harvey Wright 1 v 0 Andrew Ison
8 Lauren Cornwall 0 v 1 John Morrison
9 Ben Dible 1 v 0 Matthew Billcliff
10 Jay Kamath 1 v 0 Default
5½ 4½

Scotland Wales

Under 16
1 Murad Abdulla ½ v ½ Nicholas Evans
2 Lennart Koehn 1 v 0 Owain Davies
3 Leo Sani 1 v 0 Mateusz Sieduszewski
4 Jamie
Underwood ½ v ½ James Baker
5 Alexander Bold 1 v 0 Charles Kett
6 Caitlin Reid 1 v 0 Michael Evans
5 1
Under 14
1 Declan Shafi 1 v 0 Rhys Bennett
2 Euan Gray 0 v 1 Ben Thomas
3 Jack Stewart 0 v 1 Nyasha Katsande
4 Lotan D'Costa 0 v 1 Owen Bennett
5 Colin Howie 0 v 1 Alyssa Wang
6 Craig Gillies 0 v 1 Imogen Camp
7 Euan Dawson ½ v ½ Jamie Bell-Thomas
8 Michael Doyle 0 v 1 Joshua Williams
9 Callum Smith 1 v 0 Guto Neave
10 Stuthi Hegde 0 v 1 Arjun Balasahramaniam
2½ 7½
Under 12
1 Vagif
Ramazanov ½ v ½ Ben Choo Yin
2 Ben Volland ½ v ½ Arjun Bolina
3 Tom Constance 0 v 1 Chirag Guha
4 Rachel Smith 0 v 1 Shayanna Sivarajasingam
5 Sam Harper 1 v 0 Macey Taylor
6 Robert Pirrie 0 v 1 Venetia Sivarajasingam
7 Andrew Ison 1 v 0 Neya Govindaraj
8 John Morrison 1 v 0 Alice Tang
9 Matthew Billcliff 0 v 1 Hugo Fowler
10 Default 0 v 1 Caspian Fowler
4 6

Scotland Midlands

Under 16
1 Murad Abdulla 1 v 0 Sam Herring
2 Lennart Koehn ½ v ½ Harry Croasdale
3 Leo Sani 1 v 0 Eva Ressel
4 Jamie
Underwood 0 v 1 Owen Robinson
5 Alexander Bold ½ v ½ Saaras Mehan
6 Caitlin Reid 0 v 1 James Kearney
3 3
Under 14
1 Declan Shafi 1 v 0 Hari Solomonides
2 Euan Gray ½ v ½ Ashwin Kalyana
3 Jack Stewart ½ v ½ Taylor Pearson
4 Lotan D'Costa 0 v 1 Aloysius Lip
5 Colin Howie 0 v 1 Matthew Fergusson
6 Craig Gilles 0 v 1 Karim Sangha
7 Euan Dawson 0 v 1 Sahrin Ahluwahlia
8 Michael Doyle 0 v 1 Alex Jarvis
9 Callum Smith 0 v 1 Ryan Reed
10 Stuthi Hegde 1 v 0 Ishaan Bedi
3 7
Under 12
1 Vagif
Ramazanov 0 v 1 Jacob Boswell
2 Ben Volland 0 v 1 Jonah Willow
3 Tom Constance 0 v 1 Alex Sheerin
4 Rachel Smith 0 v 1 David Collyer
5 Sam Harper ½ v ½ Andrew Fergusson
6 Robert Pirrie 0 v 1 Helen Constantinou
7 Andrew Ison 0 v 1 Aroun Kalyana
8 John Morrison 1 v 0 Shyan Modi
9 Matthew Billcliff 1 v 0 Kishan Modi
10 Default 0 v 1 Anish Kalyana
2½ 7½


Under 16
Team A B C D Total Posn
Wales xx ½ 0 1 1½ 4th
Midlands 5½ xx 2 3 10½ 2nd
North 6 4 xx 5 15 1st
Scotland 5 3 1 xx 9 3rd

Under 14
Team A B C D Total Posn
Wales xx 6½ 5 7½ 19 1st
Midlands 3½ xx 5 7 15½ 3rd
North 5 5 xx 7 17 2nd
Scotland 2½ 3 3 xx 8½ 4th

Under 12
Team A B C D Total Posn
Wales xx 7½ 7½ 6 21 1st
Midlands 2½ xx 6½ 7½ 16½ 2nd
North 2½ 3½ xx 5½ 11½ 3rd
Scotland 4 2½ 4½ xx 11 4th

Thanks to Matt Turner, Jonny Edwards, Alex Gillies and Alastair Dawson for helping with coaching, David Congalton for helping me along the way and to all the players and parents who came.

Calum

Morning Everyone.

I have been having problems with the noticeboard this morning. I have been trying to remove some posts from the thread and getting loads of SQL errors. Instead of removing a couple of posts, it has deleted the whole thread!

Please accept my apologies for this. Not sure why it happened as I had several posts marked for moving to the deleted forum.

46 played today at Airdrie in three sections.

Thanks to the rest of the team for giving up their time to make this happen.


Michael Hanley will add results to this thread once he has done grading - probably by midnight tonight.

Anyone desperate to know their tournament grading performance before Dougie does the Wednesday update - Send me a mail or private message and I'll let you know asap.

Should this count as Scots abroad? Discuss. No, on second thoughts better not.

Anyway, there are six Scots playing in the FIDE Open - Clement Sreeves, Neil Berry, Paul Roberts, Andrew Green, Mike Groves and Douglas McKerracher. I had intended to go myself but family issues prevented me.

Douglas had a great result in round 1, beating Estonian IM Kalle Kirk (2435) in what was the biggest upset of the first round. Neil and Andrew are also on 1/1.

Thanks to AWIC for games from Oban 2013 - available here:-
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